Quotes About Artistic

I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.

Everybody I know is writing plays twice a year. It's sort of making me feel I am not up to much.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

I have hardly ever worked with the same director twice. But when you have worked with a director before, you understand his behavior.

I started painting, I think when I was in school and I used to do watercolours back then. I attended a class for it that used to take place twice a week and I remember I really enjoyed that.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their lines, because I would just want to be doing their parts.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.

A lot of times, actors and directors don't want to repeat something. I don't think we're repeating something, but I think there's certainly a genre that we're in, and we're happy to embrace it.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I'm not always open to creative input when I have my heart set on a creative idea or a message I want to convey.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.

There's nothing harder than making a mellow, clean record. It's really scary. I can see why people would never want to do it.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

The digital process gives me total control over how I want the film to look. The films look like they did when I was first looking through the viewfinder.